Discount on Construct 2 till 29th April 2013

If you’re looking to upgrade your Personal license to a Business license, there has never been a better time! The normal cost of upgrade is $280/€229/£180, with a 40% sale discount the new cost is $168/€137.40/£108.

If you would like to upgrade your Personal license to a Business license:

Email support@scirra.com with your transaction ID and a copy of your current Personal license

We will then email you back your Business license as soon as possible!

This sale will run until 6pm BST on Monday the 29th April. If you want to take advantage of this sale, make sure you arrange purchase of a license before this date.

Getting started with Windows 8 Game development couldn’t be easier

There a new Game Templates for Windows 8 appearing every day, here are the 9 templates, available on GitHub built by fellow evangelist Chris Bowen. Chris has developed nine AWESOME game templates with features like the Windows 8 object, a “Pause" layer, snapped view support (with game pause), touch support, and some project property updates.

If your interested in Construct2 and game development for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 you can download all templates as a ZIP, or get individual templates below, just click the link and choose “View Raw”, which will let you save the template.

Auto-Runner(click “View Raw” and save)Side-scroller with player constantly running, having to jump between platforms.

Driving Game(click “View Raw” and save)Top-down driving around a track with bordering objects.

Infinite Jumping(click “View Raw” and save)Vertical game where player automatically jumps and must reach new platforms.